After disbanding
New Grass Revival,
Béla Fleck began re-creating the role of the banjo in the same way
Charlie Parker redefined the role of the saxophone. But
Fleck may be the least innovative member of this quartet:
Howard Levy gets chromatics from his blues harp,
Victor Wooten picks banjo rolls on his bass, and
Roy "Future Man" Wooten plays a Frankenstein-monster drum-machine/guitar synthesizer. For all the flash, there's little pretense; the group's astonishing musicianship keeps an "aw-shucks" accessibility that lets everybody follow the melody while they marvel. ~ Brian Mansfield